Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 08:47:12 -0600
From: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
Message-Id: <199602231447.IAA15802@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
To: rhazltin@bacall.nepean.uws.edu.au
Cc: hallam@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Robert Hazeltine's message of Fri, 23 Feb 1996 13:55:10 +1100 (EST)
Subject: Re: Automatic Entry and Forms
| From: Robert Hazeltine <rhazltin@bacall.nepean.uws.edu.au>
|
| Then on the other hand, maybe we just do not need all those systems and
| data analysts or computers are already imbrued with ai (and I just don't
| know about it yet) or I am prepared to allow someone to suck in more
| information about me off the Internet than is good for my privacy. I am
| a fairly consistent user of the Internet, and I have *not once* felt the
| urge to use an application that automatically gave someone information
| about myself (not even my data or birth or my great grandmother's maiden
| name).
---
I'm not sure what you're responding to - are you opposed to the browser
automatically filling in any data in FORMs for you? This seems a little
bizarre - I find typing my name and e-mail address into forms (such as
Netscape bug reports) even a couple of times a day is pretty irritating.
It's not a major problem, but it is an area where a little standards
engineering could make life a little easier for users.
Nobody is proposing that there be a comprehensive set of tags for all
possible fields in use on the net. However, it doesn't seem
unreasonable to standardize a few (maybe a dozen) tags for things that
are frequently used (name, e-mail address, voice and fax phone numbers,
organization, street address, city, state/province, postal code,
and country come to mind). The other approach, the browser that learns,
doesn't need standardization.
scott
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